Bennie Bland was a 21-year-old Black male whose life ended on October 18, 2009, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Online homicide records list his death on the same date as the assault and place the incident on the 5400 block of Belmar Street, a residential stretch in the Kingsessing area of Southwest Philadelphia. The available records do not give a full account of what Bennie was doing in the moments before the shooting, but they mark his death as one of Philadelphia's 2009 homicides and preserve
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